6 Nov
2012
6 Nov
'12
3:23 p.m.
On 11/06/2012 06:15 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Ah, yes. I wrote some raw postscript, and when running on "Freedom of
Press" software postscript emulator (at BPS, who were printing my Comdex
sign), learned the performance consequences of an undersized stack.
I had hoped to use a bold black outline around letters filled in with an
iterating radiating color vectors, with lots of fantastic Moire patterns)
Postscript really is a wonderful thing. :-)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, Dave McGuire wrote:
Neat! I didn't know there were others.
I've used the JLASER card. It was really
quite nice. QMS made a
similar device,
There were, eventually, quite a few. I used the Corona/Cordata.
and the JLASER
and the Eiconscript (Postscript compatible and/or PCL)
I had a switchbox at the input of my printer. He came up with a way to use lots of RAM.
Could a similar system be hacked together for CP/M?
I don't see why not. I
wouldn't want to try to write a PostScript
interpreter on an 8-bitter, though. ;)